Archive - Sep 13, 2007

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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE CENTER for the Arts events and programs coordinator Andrea Solomon helps Joey, right, and Noah Viner strip leaves off saplings and add them to a growing pile that will be used for an art installation being created this month in front of the museum by sculptor Patrick Dougherty. Noah’s class from St. Mary’s School had visited with the artist Tuesday morning and Noah came back after school with his mother and siblings to volunteer with the sapling preparation.Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY — Addison County’s efforts in battling domestic violence got a huge boost on Tuesday with news that Middlebury-based WomenSafe had landed a $495,509 federal grant to hire new staff to educate the community about crimes against women and to investigate those suspected of committing such offenses.

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced that three Vermont organizations had been picked to share $1.55 million in U.S. Department of Justice grants for programs aimed at combating domestic violence. Among them was WomenSafe, an organization that helps abuse victims in Addison County and Rochester. WomenSafe’s nearly half-million-dollar grant will provide for:

• A full-time coordinator for the Addison County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. The council’s members include a variety of crime-fighting and human services organizations — such as the Vermont State Police, the Parent-Child Center of Addison County and the Vermont Department of Probation and Parole — that all work with people who have been touched by domestic violence.

MIDDLEBURY — The Counseling Service of Addison County (CSAC) has put the finishing touches on a $650,000 fund-raising campaign and is now seeking permission from the town of Middlebury to proceed with two major building projects to accommodate its ever growing list of clients and services.

The most ambitious of the projects is a proposed 19,000-square-foot building in Catamount Park off Exchange Street that would house CSAC’s administrative offices and its “Community Associates” program that provides services to people with developmental disabilities in Addison County. That program has outgrown its current headquarters at 61 Court St.

CSAC is also advancing a plan to build a 2,528-square-foot addition on its office building at 89 Main St. That structure currently houses CSAC’s adult mental health, psychiatry, out-patient and emergency services departments. The addition would accommodate four new offices; a large “group area”; a clinical records storage space; and sprinkler/fire alarm systems for the entire building.

VERGENNES — The Vergennes Development Review Board on Monday held a public hearing but made no ruling on a topic that has intrigued city officials: a proposal by the Champlain Valley Christian School (CVSC) to put four wind turbines on top of the new high school it is building off Church Street on the Waltham town line.

CVSC representative Ted Boelens said on Tuesday that school officials estimate that the four turbines, which he said at the Monday hearing looked like larger versions of “55-gallon drums,” would save the school about $6,000 a year in its power bills.

The purchase and installation of the four wind turbines, plus smaller power-generating solar panels and needed electronic equipment, will cost about $36,000, Boelens said. Efficiency Vermont is granting the school $18,000 toward the project.